See if you can step to this

* Eric B. cuts up the phrase "Back to the lab" *

Now try to do this step ("Back to the lab")

and make sure the pace is kept

and this ain't as smooth as I'ma get

Nice and easy but hard to catch on to

Move with melodies rhymes to respond to

The mic's in front of me so you know it's gonna be

rough and rugged plus I'm smooth as I wanna be

I'm somethin like sippin on Dom Perignon

So absorb the song, til the rhyme's all gone

My beats and speech original, you can't find these

Eighty-nine is mine, so is the nineties

Tellin you what you need to know and more

You're unsure? On tour, I explore

From street to street, to speak, from beat after beat

My cypher's complete, when I build with people I meet

So here's the info straight from the source in fact

Paid the cost to be the boss, STEP BACK

give me room to exercise the mind

Three-hundred and sixty degrees'll be fine

The weight of the world is what we hold

That's a six, followed by twenty-one zeroes

Six ?? sums is a lot of weight

My truth is the strength and my thought won't break

What it take, concentration, to rebuild our

nation but we got to have mind power

And we can make it work, because I know we can

And if somethin go wrong, make another plan

It's up to us, so strive and be wise and

when we reach the top, don't stop risin

And I'll keep comin up with more of

the most requested songs that you all love

Reach out and touch the mic, take control

Still gettin +Paid+ and I still got +Soul+

And the only thing I ever wanted you to follow was poetry

Mind takes X-rays, so listen closely

From the darkness